Posted on 5 June 2023
Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Alice Walker explore the themes of black feminism (or “womanism”) in their fiction.
Warning: this episode contains discussion of sexual violence and suicide.
Posted on 28 May 2023
Richard Hooker defends the religious and political settlement of Elizabethan England using rational arguments and appeals to the natural law.
Posted on 21 May 2023
Toni Cade Bambara, the Combahee River Collective, and Awa Thiam critique white feminist and black nationalist failures to recognize the unique struggle of the black woman.
Posted on 14 May 2023
The evolution of ideas about kingship and the role of the “three estates” in 15th and 16th century England, with a focus on John Fortescue and Thomas Starkey.
Posted on 7 May 2023
What is the message of the famous, but elusive, work Utopia, and how can it be squared with the life of its author?
Posted on 30 April 2023
Pan-Africanist and Marxist historian Walter Rodney rethinks Black Power, engages with Rastafari, and opposes racial division in his home country of Guyana.
Posted on 23 April 2023
Humanism comes to England and Scotland, leading scholars like Thomas Eylot and Andrew Melville to rethink philosophical education.
Image: Queen Elizabeth's translation of Boethius
Posted on 16 April 2023
Famous for his killing at the hands of the Apartheid government in South Africa, Steve Biko was also a deep thinker, who introduced the notion of Black Consciousness.
Posted on 9 April 2023
A leading expert on the history of the Reformation joins us to explain the very different stories of England and Scotland in the 16th century.
Posted on 2 April 2023
The political and musical revolution of Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, the social critique of his cousin, the playwright Wole Soyinka, and the extraordinary career of Fela's mother Funmilayo.
Thanks to everyone at Oxford who came out for my first Carlyle lecture! If you missed it there are five more still to come:
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/carlyle-lectures
Every Tuesday at 5 pm over the next five weeks, in the Examination Schools, South Schools. So the last one is March 10, 2020.
Saturday 15 February 2020
9.15am Registration and Coffee/Tea
9.45am Welcome
Guess what I got in the post today? My author copies of HoPWaG volume 5, on Classical Indian philosophy, of course written together with Jonardon Ganeri.
I just had an exchange with Sandrine Berges (@sandrineankara) on Twitter about Diotima, who appears in Plato's Symposium espousing a theory of love and beauty that is strongly linked to Plato's theory of Forms.
You can now register for "Women Intellectuals in Antiquity," a symposium to be held at Keble College in Oxford on Feb 15-16.
Organized by Ursula Coope, Katharine O'Reilly, Jenny Rallens, and me.
Some of you may remember that in summer 2019 I gave a series of lectures at my alma mater, Notre Dame. These are now online if you want to view them, the topic of the three lectures is “Don’t Think for Yourself: Faith and Authority in Medieval Philosophy.”
Hi HoPWaG fans, I have an important favor to ask. In connection with the funding of the project, I need to document the impact the podcast has had on the wider world. So I'm looking for stories about things like: the effect it has had on the way philosophy is taught and studied (e.g. inclusion of non-western topics); testimony of the impact it has had on you personally or on groups you're connected to; use of the podcast in surprising ways (like maybe to teach English) or, really, anything else you can think of.
"TrueSciPhi Radio" from Kelly Truelove (@truesciphi on Twitter) will be playing the entirety of HoPWaG (original feed followed by Indian and Africana episodes) starting later today, 9 am central US time. It will take 7.4 days to play all the episodes!
Here is an announcement of two openings at my institute here in Munich, for researchers to join the ERC funded project I am running on Philosophy of Animals in the Islamic World. We're looking for a PhD student to work on animals in medicine and philosophy, and a postdoc to work on al-Jahiz's Book of Animals.
Here is an announcement of a call for papers, for a conference I'm organizing together with Jenny Rallens, Katharine O'Reilly, and Ursula Coope. Please get in touch if you might be interested in giving a paper, and if you just want to attend then mark your calendar!
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Women Intellectuals in Antiquity
15-16 February 2020, Keble College, Oxford
A Persian translation of my Philosophy in the Islamic World: a Very Short Introduction has just appeared, translated b
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